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0 pointswhiplash4511y ago0 comments

No, I really meant structured. Extracting data from structured documents is surprisingly hard when you need very high accuracy.

What I mean by structured is: invoices, documents containing tables, etc.

Extracting useful data from fully unstructured content is very hard IMO and potentially above the capacity of LLMs (depending on your definition of "useful" and "unstructured")

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b1121y ago

But this is why I made my complexity statement in my other reply.

Why are firms sending around invoices, tables instead of parseable data. Oh I know the argument, because "so hard to cooperate" on standards, etc.

Madness.

projektfu1y ago

Partly because the standards, such as X12, have a high startup cost to use them, they aren't very opinionated about the actual content, and you have to get the counterparty on board to use them.

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